5/26/2008 - Memorial Day At Marineland

About a dozen divers showed up for our traditional Sunday Barbeque a day late today. Merry and I were in Phoenix this weekend. We looked at the ocean before we left and it was a mess, with high surf predicted for the remainder of the weekend. Evil Jeff called yesterday to let me know that it flattened out nicely, so today was on. The cove looked pretty milky from the top of the trail, but the dive conditions were pretty nice at the point. The water has warmed up nearly ten degrees since last week and a few Rainbow nudis were still hanging around.
We've spotted a large Batray in the same area over the past month and he was still there today. Jeff Conner reported seeing as many as five yesterday.
Evil Jeff Shaw experimented with lots of new equipment today. His dry gloves didn't stay dry, but his drysuit did. Merry forced him to bring his camera along, so hopefully he got some better pictures than I did.